We recently completed one of our first truly custom projects of 2015, the ‘wave’ handrail. The owners of the Fort Collins, CO residence worked with us to create this unique design concept which was inspired by their travels to the ancient stone carved city of Petra, where the natural grains of the rock cliff present a flowing, wave like appearance. The handrails are the first planned updated to the couples home, which will undergo further renovations. The ‘wave’ handrail project consisted of four individual sections as seen in the photo below. The stair stringer leading upstairs, the upper hallway section, the dining area surround, and the wall mounted handrail going downstairs to the lower den. The first step in creating this project was experimenting with the wave concept. Since we were working solely with manual tools, we wanted to ensure that we could bend and form the curves to a smooth,...